Co-founded in 2005 by Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, EcoArtTech works with digital, networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art about the environmentality of modern life. Drawing on a wide range of literary, artistic, and theoretical fields, our aim is to imagine new, healthy, and sustainable relationships between animals, humans, and their environments and technologies. The following ideas and issues in particular guide EcoArtTech's creative research:

critiques of nature and wilderness as viable categories to ground environmental ethics discussions of whether human use of technology is an ecological fault or a strength the interaction of the digital and the natural the re-imagination of what constitutes technology nature and culture's inseparability technology’s mediation of environmental ethics experiences of the local in the context of globality technology's systemization during modernization historical and cultural constructions of land and space the relation of new media technologies to humans’ primordial use of technics (i.e. tools or skills that transform raw materials and/or produce comfort and pleasure)

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Christine Nadir is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University where she is completing her dissertation on twentieth-century environmental literature, art, and thought.She has taught at Columbia University and SUNY College at Oneonta and has presented her research internationally at conferences and universities, including Colgate University, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. In the academic year 2007–2008, Christine teaches courses on modernity, modernism, and new media history and theory as a lecturer at Colgate University.

Cary Peppermint is a conceptual and performance artist working with digital technologies and "natural" environments. He is assistant professor of art at Colgate University where he teaches courses in the theory and practice of digital and new media art. Cary is known for his website "Restlessculture.net," an internationallly recognized platform for his ongoing series of net art and networked performance art. Cary has curated international exhibitions of digitally infused eco-art, including “Technorganic” and “Wilderness Information Network," which both took place in the upper Catskills of New York state. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, Experimental Television Workshop Grant, and NYSCA's Decentralization Grant. His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Computer Fine Arts.

Cary and Christine have been working together informally since 1996 and began exhibiting together in 2004. In 2005, they founded EcoArtTech as their collaborative platform of digital environmental art.

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